ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL.
Lisbon, June 27. Portugal has cancelled the concessions to the Delagoa Bay Railway Company. London, June 29. A great indignation meeting of the Delagoa Bay railway shareholders, held in London, demanded that the Government should insist that Portugal be compelled to repay (he old three million debt. It is considered that the present dispute will lead to Portugese stock being struck off the Stock Exchange quotations. Information has reached here that the Portuguse Government have torn up a portion of the permanent way of the Delagoa Boy Railway, and that an Englishman, the driver of a locomotive, has been fired at. The English residents demand that assistance should be sent. British gunboats have been ordered to Delagoa Bay. In consequence of the Portugese Government having withdrawn the railway concessions, the company’s employees to the number of 305 have entrenched themselves and will oppose the Portugese if they attempt to enforce the decree,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1911, 2 July 1889, Page 1
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155ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Temuka Leader, Issue 1911, 2 July 1889, Page 1
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